Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!apple!uokmax!servalan!rmtodd From: rmtodd@servalan.uucp (Richard Todd) Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux Subject: Re: porting Xwindows to the mac Message-ID: <1990Aug8.212027.823@servalan.uucp> Date: 8 Aug 90 21:20:27 GMT References: Distribution: usa Organization: Ministry of Silly Walks Lines: 27 ira@iear.arts.rpi.edu (Ira Lee) writes: >Hello. I would like to get X windows ported to AUX 2.0. Is there >someone out there that has done it successfully? Well, the current version of X Window (X11R4) contains support for A/UX already. It compiles just fine under A/UX 1.1, and I'm told that it does under 2.0, though I haven't had a chance to try it yet. (It's on my list of things-to-do once I get enough disk space cleared up...). In my experience, getting X Window to run under A/UX 1.1 was simply a matter of unpacking the MIT source and grabbing an up-to-date copy of GCC (you *definitely* want to compile X with gcc--the speed difference in the server is very noticable), editing a couple of things in the macII.cf file, and typing the appropriate "make World" invokation (and waiting a few hours :-) >someone out there that has done it successfully? Is there anything >special about Apples X windows port that makes it worth buying? I believe Apple's X Window package includes MacX, a version of X that runs under MultiFinder (and hence can be used at the same time that you're running MacOS programs). Since I don't have the Apple X package, I can't say for sure, though. -- Richard Todd rmtodd@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu rmtodd@chinet.chi.il.us rmtodd@servalan.uucp "Cancelling a posted message means posting a cancel message."-Maarten Litmaath